Global Doing Good

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461561483
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Bozeman, MT, USA
Phone
4062008247
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$137,140
Expenses
$167,059
Assets
$2,622,779
Liabilities
$6,327

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ETHAN SCRENOCK (President)

People named in this filing

  • ETHAN SCRENOCK (President)
  • ROY PETERSON (Director)
  • LUKE ROQUET (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Global Doing Good (GDG) partners with educators to provide unique learning experiences that inspire young people to better their communities and themselves. Our vision is to empower middle school students to become informed global citizens who maintain a lifelong commitment to service.Global Doing Good is dedicated to transforming middle school students into lifelong "changemakers." GDGs unique strategy centers on radical youth agency. By providing micro-funding, educational travel, and global immersion, we bridge the gap between classroom theory and real-world civic action.

What it reported doing in 2024

Global Doing Good had three mission and program service accomplishment sectors during the fiscal year detailed below.The Benjamin Project: The Benjamin Project empowers students to lead community service initiatives through $100 seed grants. We partner with middle school educators to nominate students who then have 90 days to plan and execute a project to better their local community. This program builds civic literacy and resourcefulness by putting direct social responsibility in the hands of young leaders.Accomplishments: Awarded seed funding to 296 middle school students nationwide. The participants launched diverse projects, including animal welfare initiatives, food security drives, and fundraising for local special needs organizations. With an initial $29,600 in total grants, students generated an additional $19,003 in cash alone. When combined with in-kind services, the total return exceeded the original investment, significantly expanding the project's impact.Educational Travel Scholarships: We award U.S. Civics Travel Scholarships to students based on demonstrated character, integrity, and a commitment to civic engagement. Recipients are selected through a competitive essay process designed to identify future leaders. These grants provide the funding necessary for students to participate in educational travel, ensuring that meritrather than economic statusdictates access to global citizenship opportunities.Accomplishments: Provided scholarship funding to individual recipients. These grants facilitated participation in civic-focused travel and academic excursions that reinforce lifelong service habits and cross-cultural understanding.Service Learning Trips: Our Service Learning Trips offer alumni of our programs and students from underserved communities the chance to engage in hands-on, career-focused immersion experiences. By connecting classroom learning with real-world application, we deepen students' understanding of global citizenship and professional paths within the nonprofit and community service sectors.Accomplishments: Successfully facilitated a transformative service-learning trip for a group of Title I students enrolled in a Veterinary Technology program. This immersive 3 day trip to San Diego provided these students with rare, direct exposure to professional veterinary work, wildlife conservation, and community animal welfare initiatives. The program combined technical skill-building with guided reflection on how specialized vocational skills can be used to serve the public good.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 0
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -21.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.7; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 108.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $139K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.